Fuse-waterproof-detonator crimper.



No. 652,573. Pawnted iune wml-585551 ,www2

Unire STATES seres.

Parent* ARTHUR SHEVAN WILLIAMSON, OF PIDENIX, CANADA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 652,573, dated June 26, 1900.

Application filed January 5, 1900. Serial No. 470. (No model.)

' To all whom, 1711,l may concern.-

lie it known that. I, AR'IHUR SHEWAN WIL- LIAMsOrLa citizen of the United States, rc siding at Phnix, in the Province of llritish Columbia andDominion of Canada, have invented a new and Improved Fuse-Taterproof-Detonator Crimper, of which the fol` lowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this inve'ption is to provide an instrument for crimping fuse waterproof detonators to seal the same by producing in`\ the deionator a uniform contraction and also producing folds or crimps at opposite sides thereof, thnsisealing the detonator around the fuse proper.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of my invention, while the claims define the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure l is a perspective view of the in vention, and Fig. 2 is a fragmentary View showing the upper jaw in side elevation and the lower jaw in longitudinal section.

The tool consists of two sections ci and l1, pivotedto each other on the boite and formed with handles d and jaws a' and b'. The jaws ci and l1' are oilset laterally in opposite directions, so as to engage eachother fair, and

` each jaw is formed on its inner face with a seinicireular coneavity c. The jaw D has spursfformed on its under face, such spurs being respectively at opposite sides of therecesses e, and the ,jaw a is formed with eavities g in its inner face, such cavities being` placed so as to respectively receive the spurs ffwhen the jaws are engaged, as shown in The adjacent faces of the spurs fare Fig. 2.

beveled outward, as indicated, so that they will properly engage the detonatorand cause the same to be wedged between the spurs and into the recesses c.

ln rising the tool the deienator, with the f l'nse therein, is inserted between the jaws and the jaws are engaged so that the spurs kf enter the cavities g, and the tube is compressed or contracted within the recesses c,

which are then matched with each other, as

indicated in Fig. 2. Simultai'ieously the `,spii`rs j' in straddiing the tn'oc produce ciin'ips or folds therein. ly these means the detonator is ciectually and hcrmetically sealed o'nthe fuse proper.

lla-ving thus described my invention, i claim as new and desire to secure by Letters latentl. A erimping-tool, having jaws adapted to Work toward and from each other, each jaw being; formed with recesses, the recesses matching when the jaws are engaged to forni an inelnsed space reeeivin" the article to be crimped, one of the jaws' being formed with spurs situated at opposite sides of the recess therein and the other of yfthe jaws being formed with cavities receiving the spurs.

A crimping-tool, having two jaws arf ranged to work toward and from eachother and formed each with recess, such recesses registering to form an enlarged space receiving the article to be ei'imped,and a spur carried on one jaw at one side of the recess therein, the otherjaw havinga cavity registering with the spur, to receive the spur when the jaws are engaged.

Altllllllt SilllWAN ll'llllll'llillSON.

Witnesses:

L. F. vIIoL'rz, J. A. WILLrAnsoN. 

